Countdown To Christmas!!

[flat-top]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V9BZDpni56Y
http://www.xmasclock.com/

 

[rue]

well I dwell about my losses and pains, things said, things not said, things almost said...

or...

I spend the day with my family. We have a real tree. Decorate it with new and vintage ornaments from all over. We have a home cooked meal. Exchange presents. Call family that's now with us. Usually go for a walk and take the dogs. Maybe watch a christmas themed film. Perhaps a home cooked cake or pie. A few cups of eggnog with dark rum.

Thanks pretty much what I do.

Sounds pretty good to me

Most Excellent HD. Life without great passion and desire is not a life. We need sentiment and emotion, for good or bad, bonds between us that endure all. Those around us that elicit this are to be cherished. That is why we are sharing this thread, thank you rue.

It was Flat-top that started this thread

 

[rue]

http://www.xmasclock.com/

Your clocks scare me lol

 

[amador]

OOps. I got confused and lost my place. This is what happens when you try multitasking. Watching "The Universe" on TV, doing laundry, playing with the cats, catching up on the latest pharmacutical developments and trying to absorb the latest guidelines on PAPs/Mammograms and DRE's/ Prostate cancer screening. Then add maintaining an alcoholic cynical persona at the F-lounge. I thought I was at the Lounge Family site. Thanks for that one rue. Thank you Flat-top for this one. Merry Christmas.

 

[Formeruser012523]

Thanks flat-top. The video made me happy. & the clock...

Well, that just freaked me out a little bit.

 

[flat-top]

I love that song! When I was a kid, the only time I could hear that song was when the rock stations would play Christmas music only on Christmas Eve. It still feels a little taboo to listen to it "early".

 

[Miss Golightly]

Are you sure it's just the little Miss who likes Hello Kitty?

We have a wooden advent calendar, which i have had for years and i have yet to buy my son his own one, which takes pride of place in his bedroom. Thanks for reminding me Miss G!

Ha! Busted! I do have quite a soft spot for that pretty kitty!

I've never had an advent calendar - a more permanent one sounds like a lovely idea - have you got yours up now?

 

[AmateisGal]

Uh..not for me. I celebrate the possibility of the gift of salvation...by giving my gifts also out of love. I either must go shopping for them..or make them. I do both. We always have an artificial tree made up to give a soft glow, sparkle and warmth of special celebration. A family gathering to laugh,kid,love and join each other in the joy of all being together from near and far. For me it is not only about the excitement of the children...but also pleasant surprises for the grown up children as well.
Anyone can sit around like sourpusses with disdain...but why not turn a frown upside down. A smile,and making the best of how the holiday is celebrated,can be contagious. Christmas spirit comes from the same place as those cynical doldrums. One choice is hard and cold..the other is really heartwarming and truely loving. Life is short...even Family is fleeting...no matter what kind or quality it may be.
HD

Very well said! :eusa_clap

 

[Miss sofia]

Ha! Busted! I do have quite a soft spot for that pretty kitty!

I've never had an advent calendar - a more permanent one sounds like a lovely idea - have you got yours up now?

I must 'fess up here, today i went to the paper shop to get Maxi his calendar, (Milky Bar Santa, very nice), guess what was next to Santa, only Hello Kitty, so i treated myself to one, hooray. I also have a soft spot for the little kitty, in fact i wish i was about ten again so i could get away with having a bedroom full of it!

Our permanent one is a French style wooden house with all little numbered doors, it's very pretty. As Maxi and i have gotten a calendar each, i decided the house could have a cat treat inside it every day for the kitten, instead of more chocolate for us to gorge ourselves on!

I bet you must be very exciited as the little Miss will really be enjoying and understanding Christmas more this year. I hope the move is going/has gone well.

x

 

[Formeruser012523]

I love that song! When I was a kid, the only time I could hear that song was when the rock stations would play Christmas music only on Christmas Eve. It still feels a little taboo to listen to it "early".

Only on Christmas Eve? Our stations started playing it before Halloween! I think I heard this song Oct. 30th!! It was rather odd hearing it before Thanksgiving, even.

Still made me happy, though.

 

[TidiousTed]

Since I bought the farm my family and I have celebrated Christmas there. This year we will be: My sister and her husband, their two daughters with boyfriends and my sister’s grandson, three friends of the family who have no family left themselves, my two daughters with boyfriends and my grandson and my girlfriend and me. 17 at the table, and I love it.
Presents from my girlfriend and me will either be from the kitchen (Plum, red currant and apple jams and jellies and plum, cherry and red currant liqueur. And there will be wooden toys for the boys and other wooden presents from my carpentry shop. All this apart from the liqueurs has been finished and packed a long time ago. The liqueurs will be tasted and packed the day before Christmas according to tradition.
My daughters will turn up a week before Christmas to help decorate the house, clean the silver and so on and go with me and the dogs into the woods to find the perfact trees, we have one in the largest livingroom and one in the yard.

 

[Retro_GI_Jane]

I love that song! When I was a kid, the only time I could hear that song was when the rock stations would play Christmas music only on Christmas Eve. It still feels a little taboo to listen to it "early".

We have a "lite" rock station that has been playing Christmas and obscure Christmas songs since the week of Thanksgiving. "Wonderful Christmas Time" is high on their playlist rotation to the point I'm already annoyed with it. Give me Elvis "Blue Christmas" any day.

 

[flat-top]

Only on Christmas Eve? Our stations started playing it before Halloween! I think I heard this song Oct. 30th!! It was rather odd hearing it before Thanksgiving, even.

Still made me happy, though.

I'm talking about the 80's when Christmas didn't start in September!

 

[Gregg Axley]

I agree Flat Top, I think in the last few years Christmas crept past Halloween.
At least at Cotsco, where I saw Halloween candy AND Christmas trees.
Sirius XM radio plays several versions of Christmas music on different channels. I prefer Holiday Traditions, with Nat King Cole, Johnny Mathis,
The Freshmen(?), The Carpenters, etc. We see the inlaws around this time of the year, and my wife and I spend a few hours in the car together during the trip. We agree to listen to 1hr each of our chosen music. Hers is Radio Classics (Jack Benny, Whistler, Lights Out, etc), and mine is CHRISTMAS MUSIC, loud and strong for 1 full hour. Yeah hearing the same songs over and over do get old, but they are done by different artists. My hobby is button pushing, I can't help myself.

 

[flat-top]

I don't really mind the Christmas season coming early, but like I mentioned in another thread, I try to wait at least until November before I start listening to the music full on. I will sample here and there earlier than that though.

 

[TidiousTed]

Since I make all my presents myself I try to go into the city as little as possible the last 6 weeks before Christmas as I'm just as pissed with the early decorations as the rest of you. I do all my grocery shopping in a local shop which has a 3 inch Santa above the door and that's all. The shop is run by a Buddhist Vietnamese family who don't celebrate Christmas.

 

[V.C. Brunswick]

The shop is run by a Buddhist Vietnamese family who don't celebrate Christmas.

That's always good if you happen to forget or run out of something on Christmas. You know that they'll probably be open.

 

[DJH]

Here's what I (the official scrooge of New Hampshire) think of people that put up Christmas deccos too early

[video=youtube;lt1Ce_4ozxM]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lt1Ce_4ozxM[/video]

 

[Wally_Hood]

Flat-top, it looks like you got a number of responses regarding otr Christmas shows, so the only links I can offer are http://www.oldtimeradiofans.com/christmas-old-time-radio-shows.php and www.archive.org. At archive.org type Christmas radio in the search line and pore over the selections.

My collection is mostly the result of a couple years of noodling around the internet for otr and downloading the Christmas shows I find.

My personal favorites are (of course) Jack Benny's annual shopping trips and when some shows did their spin on A Christmas Carol, i.e., Richard Diamond, The Six-Shooter, et cetera...

 

[amador]

Actually I hope that Christmas Creep goes to the point that we have Christmas all year round! Then every holiday will also be Christmas. Christmas New Years, Christmas Valentine's Day, Christmas Leap Day, Christmas Ides of March... Wait a minute, do we celebrate the assasination of Julius Caeser? Doesn't matter 'cause it will be Christmas!! And we won't have to take down the tree or the lights.